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OverviewWill boys be boys? What are little boys made of? Kenneth B. Kidd responds to these familiar questions with a thorough review of boy culture in America since the late nineteenth century. From the ""boy work"" promoted by character-building organizations such as Scouting and 4-H to current therapeutic and pop psychological obsessions with children's self-esteem, Kidd presents the great variety of cultural influences on the changing notion of boyhood. Analyzing icons of boyhood and maleness from Huck Finn and The Jungle Book's Mowgli to Father Flanagan's Boys Town and even Michael Jackson, Kidd surveys films, psychoanalytic case studies, parenting manuals, historical accounts of the discoveries of ""wolf-boys,"" and self-help books to provide a rigorous history of what it has meant to be an all-American boy. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kenneth B. KiddPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 14.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.345kg ISBN: 9780816642960ISBN 10: 0816642966 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 09 June 2005 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgementsBoyhood for Beginners: An Introduction1. Farming for Boys2. Bad Boys and Men of Culture3. Wolf-Boys, Street Rats, and the Vanishing Sioux4. Father Flanagan's Boys Town5. From Freud's Wolf Man to Teen Wolf6. Reinventing the Boy ProblemNotesWorks CitedIndexReviewsKenneth Kidd's Making American Boys is a remarkable pioneer study of the sociocultural conditions that influenced the particular development of American boyhood from the late nineteenth century to the present. . . . This book is requisite reading for understanding how boys become 'real' American men. -Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota Kidd offers fascinating evidence that 'feral tales' . . . seeped into the mind of childhood experts . . . [and] indelibly marked the way we think about boyhood. -Village Voice Kidd offers fascinating evidence that 'feral tales' . . . seeped into the mind of childhood experts . . . [and] indelibly marked the way we think about boyhood. -Village Voice Author InformationKenneth B. Kidd is associate professor of English at the University of Florida and associate director of the Center for Children's Literature and Culture. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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